The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950

Politics, Social History and Culture
Herausgeber: Gorman, Anthony; Monciaud, Didier

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the political, social and cultural dimensions of the press in the Middle East in the pre-independence era The press is central to our understanding of the development of free speech, civil society, political life and cultural expression. This volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850--1950). Following an authoritative introduction, these explore the emergence of this important medium, its practitioners and its function as a forum and agent in political, social and cultural life in the Middle East. In taking up this focus, the collection argues that the press is both a vector and an agent of history that facilitates entrée into the complex process of political, social and cultural transformation that the region was undergoing during this critical period. Key Features - Twelve innovative case studies based on archival research cover the Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Morocco - Explores social, political and cultural aspects of the press from the Ottoman Empire and the post-Ottoman Arab world including North Africa in the period before 1950 - An authoritative introduction reviews the state of the field of the press and media in Middle Eastern studies and places these contributions in context -Builds a profile of the practitioners of journalism from political activists and amateurs to the emergence of the professional journalist in the Middle East Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor (with Sossie Kasbarian) of Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and co-editor (with Marilyn Booth) of The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). Didier Monciaud is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Associate Research Fellow at Groupe de recherche sur le Maghreb et le Moyen Orient, University Diderot Paris VI, Paris. Cover image: artistic design by Daniel Lounici Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3061-6 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781474430623
• ISBN-10: 1474430627
• Artikelnr.: 53685435

Autorenporträt

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt. He is currently co-editing a book on the press in the Middle East and on a monograph on a history of the prison in the Middle East. Didier Monciaud is an Independent Researcher affiliated with the GREMAMO (University Paris VII Denis Diderot) and a board member of the Cahiers d'histoire, revue d'histoire critique. His main research interests are political commitments, trajectories and mobilisations in contemporary Egypt, particularly among the educated youth.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Anthony Gorman and Didier Monciaud
I. The Press as National Voice
News Publishing as a Reflection of Public Opinion: The Idea of News during
the Ottoman Financial Crises, Gül Karagöz Kizilca
Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and
National Anxieties in Egypt's 1890s, Marilyn Booth
The Arabic Palestinian Press between the Two World Wars, Mustafa Kabha
Falastin: An Experiment in Promoting Palestinian Nationalism through the
English-Language Press, Fred Lawson
II. The Rise of the Journalist
Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim
Mediterranean World prior to World War I, Odile Moreau
The Publicist and his Newspaper in Syria in the Era of the Young Turk
Revolution, between Reformist Commitment and Political Pressures: Muhammad
Kurd 'Ali and al-Muqtabas (1908-1917), Kais Ezzerelli
From Intellectual to Professional: the Move from 'Contributor' to
'Journalist' at Ruz al-Yusuf in the 1920s and 1930s, Sonia Temimi
III: Critical, Dissident Voices
The Anarchist Press in Egypt before the First World War, Anthony Gorman
The War in Ethiopia in the Italian Fascist and anti-Fascist Press in
Tunisia in the 1930s, Leila El Houssi
A Voice from Below in the 1940s Egyptian Press: the Experience of the
Workers Newspaper Shubra, Didier Monciaud
IV: The Press as Community Voice
The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women, and Baghdadi Men - A Reading in the
Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah, Orit Bashkin
From a Privileged Community to a Minority Community: The Orthodox Community
of Beirut through the Newspaper al-Hadiyya, Souad Slim